Judd’s of Hillingdon

On page 66, at the start of the Autumn section of ‘Mr Crabtree Goes Fishing’, Peter is taken Barbel fishing by his father. Their chosen tactic is to trot a seven foot glide with 4 gentles (maggots to you and me !) on a No.9 hook to 3X gut. This is presented below a ‘big…

The last decade or so has seen huge growth in the range of flavours available to the coarse angler. This culminated last month in the launch of Ultrabite which is being put on the market with such extravagant claims as to its efficacy that there are already mutterings about whether or not it should be…

Stillwater carp angling is never going to be easy. Each season brings itís own problems to solve. At this time of year, fishing on some lakes can be especially hard due to the weed growth dying off. In high summer, the weed – especially that awful bane to the carp angler, Canadian pond weed –…

One of the biggest developments over the last couple of seasons has been the introduction of low diameter braided lines. Although braided lines have been around for many years, and had until recently, lost favour with most anglers, the new generation of braided lines have many advantages which anglers are only just coming to grips…

Best get to the serious fishing bit rather quickly now; I can sense the editor is getting twitching alreadymiserable sod! The saying Its not what you know, its who you know has paid dividends for me this month as Im friends with the hard working chaps that run the Mid-Kent fisheries. These guys have worked…

This new edition for July has a whole load of new articles for your enjoyment plus a brand new competition. Don’t forget to enter it because if you are not in the game then you are not in the frame!Well, what will it be this week? I donít know what to fish for at this…